# The best Portuguese sweets

The traditional sweets of Portugal, many of them 'convent sweets' (created in convents with egg yolks and sugar), that appear most in lists and guides to Portuguese confectionery.

- 12 votes · 17 items
- Mar 15, 2024 · Rui Carvalho Mendes
- https://even.best/en/l/21/the-best-portuguese-sweets

## Top 15

1. **Pastel de nata** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Crisp puff pastry with egg custard; the original Pastéis de Belém recipe comes from the Jerónimos Monastery and has been sold since 1837.
2. **Pão de ló de Ovar** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Moist sponge cake left runny in the middle, baked in clay moulds lined with paper.
3. **Ovos moles de Aveiro** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Egg yolk and sugar wrapped in wafer in sea shapes; the first Portuguese sweet with PGI status (2008).
4. **Travesseiros de Sintra** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Puff pastry filled with almond and egg cream, famous at Casa Piriquita since the 1940s.
5. **Queijadas de Sintra** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Small tarts of fresh cheese, sugar, eggs and cinnamon, made in Sintra since the Middle Ages.
6. **Arroz doce** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rice cooked in milk with egg yolks and lemon, decorated with cinnamon; a must at every celebration.
7. **Sericaia with Elvas plums** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alentejo egg, milk and cinnamon dessert served with PDO Elvas plums.
8. **Pastéis de Tentúgal** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paper-thin crisp pastry filled with sweet egg cream, from the Carmelite nuns of Tentúgal.
9. **Bolo-rei** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Christmas cake with candied fruit and nuts, popularised by Lisbon's Confeitaria Nacional in 1875.
10. **Morgado do Algarve** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Algarve marzipan sweet filled with fig-leaf gourd jam and egg threads.
11. **Toucinho do céu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Convent cake of almond, egg yolks and sugar, with versions in Guimarães and Murça.
12. **Pudim Abade de Priscos** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Braga pudding with egg yolks, port wine and bacon, a finalist of the 7 Wonders of Portuguese Gastronomy.
13. **Bola de Berlim** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried doughnut filled with egg custard, sold on Portuguese beaches in summer.
14. **Pastel de Santa Clara** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thin half-moon pastry with almond and egg filling, typical of Coimbra.
15. **Pão de Deus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet brioche bun topped with grated coconut, found in every pastelaria.
16. **Fios de ovos** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fine threads of egg yolk cooked in sugar syrup, used to decorate cakes.
17. **Brisas do Lis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Small egg yolk and almond sweets from Leiria, born in the Convent of Santana.

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